....but you cannot provide adequate employment for a large urban area with a surrounding agrarian economy. Like it or not, Wilmington and it's suburbs (which includes Southport) ARE fast becoming a large urban area, and will have to have large scale employers and heavy, industrial operations. We cannot thrive if we duplicate Florida a la 1970. Doctors' offices, funeral parlors, restaurants, golf courses, and fifty thousand people demanding their AARP discount is NOT the basis of a healthy thriving economy.